3 Avahi 0.6, the "Goddag" release
4 ===============================
6 * Support for (read-only) wide area support. (i.e. DNS-SD over unicast DNS)
7 * Ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin/MacOSX and to some extent OpenBSD
8 * Portability fixes for ARM CPUs
9 * Compatibility layers for the HOWL and Bonjour APIs
10 * Support for registering/browsing arbitrary records
11 * Proper support for DNS-SD service subtypes
12 * Native C implementations of the client utilities
13 * Now passes the Bonjour conformance test suite without any exceptions
14 * "Passive observation of failures"
16 * Many traffic reduction improvements
19 This release is not API/ABI compatible with Avahi 0.5. Please see
20 docs/API-CHANGES-0.6 for a rough overview over the changes.
26 * Fix browing in QT applications (was totally broken)
27 * Minor documentation update.
32 * This is a bug fix release, before the big changes coming in 0.6
33 * Fix reporting of the NO_DAEMON error
34 * Fix commit throttling algorithm for entry groups
35 * Fix counting of the number of resources in an entry group
37 Avahi 0.5, the 'Bom Dia' release
38 ================================
40 * New Mono bindings, allowing you to use Avahi from
41 any CLI language such as C#
42 * Attempt auto-detection of the D-BUS system bus address
43 * Include a 'cookie' in all published records which allows us
44 to reliably determine if a service is the same as another.
45 * Add API to determine if services are local
46 * Better support for threading with AvahiSimplePoll
47 * Add some new StringList functions to help binding to it in
49 * Various build and run-time bug fixes
51 Avahi 0.4, the 'Hyvää päivää' release
52 =====================================
54 * Renamed the include dirs for the Qt bindings to include the
55 version number, as they may diverge in future.
56 * Fix a critical bug in avahi-daemon triggered by configuring an interface
57 with various DHCP clients when you have no other active addresses which
58 caused avahi-daemon to abort.
59 * Move to using python-gdbm exclusivly for the service type database.
60 * Add support for SUSE
61 * Various fixes to the build system
63 Avahi 0.3, the 'Buenos Días' release
64 ====================================
66 * New integration library for QT main-loop applications.
67 * Fix a crash in avahi-dnsconfd
68 * Documentation Updates
69 * Fix building when you don't want Python DBUS or GTK
72 - Fix handling of paths not starting with a /
73 - You can now specify the port and IP to bind to
74 - Add option to generate links with hostnames instead of IPs
76 Avahi 0.2, the 'Dzień Dobry' release
77 ====================================
79 * Unfortunately this release broke the API/ABI of libavahi-client
80 with the following function removals
82 Removal of these functions may affect users of the 0.1 API
83 - avahi_service_resolver_block()
85 The following functions were simply for debugging information
86 and their removal should not affect anyone
87 - avahi_entry_group_get_dbus_path()
88 - avahi_domain_browser_get_dbus_path()
89 - avahi_service_type_browser_get_dbus_path()
90 - avahi_service_browser_get_dbus_path()
92 Note that while the libavahi-client API changed slightly, the DBUS
93 API itself has only had additions and no existing definitions
96 * avahi-daemon will now ignore local IP addresses with the "link" scope
97 unless it is the only IP address on the interface.
98 * avahi-daemon will no longer fail to start if D-BUS is not
99 available (if configured with enable-dbus=warn)
100 * Fixed a potential crasher when resolving things in libavahi-core.
101 * New example demonstrating integration into glib applications
102 * Addtion of a set of convenience functions for AvahiStringList
103 avahi_string_list_find()
104 avahi_string_list_get_pair()
105 avahi_string_list_add_pair()
106 avahi_string_list_add_pair_arbitrary()
107 * Fixed a typo in avahi-glib.pc that stopped programs using
108 the GLIB api from compiling correctly
109 * A critical bug in the reflector was fixed where it may go into a
110 state of constantly flooding queries out to the network.
111 * Introduced new asynchronous resolver API
112 * libavahi-client gained an API for resolving HostNames and Addresses
113 in addition to the ServiceResolver provided in 0.1
114 * Added support for Arch and Gentoo linux distributions.
115 * Allowed configuration on non-supported distributions
116 * Fixed a critical bug where you cannot use more than one AvahiClient
117 or use it in an application already using D-BUS
118 * Fixed assembly of empty string lists to RFC compliant TXT records
119 * Added a new service type description database with human
120 understandable descriptions of services with translations.
121 * Fixed various minor memory corruption bugs
122 * Fixed an issue where Avahi might think it encountered a conflict
123 if the process or machine has been suspended
124 * Fixed compilation and runtime issues on 64-bit distributions
128 Avahi 0.1, the "Guten Tag" release
129 ==================================
131 The Avahi team would like to announce the immediate availability of
132 Avahi 0.1 "Guten Tag".
134 Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery.
135 It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts
136 running on a local network with no specific configuration. For
137 example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to
138 print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
140 Avahi is designed to be compatible with the mDNS/DNS-SD specification
141 and boasts the following features
143 * Fully open source and freely available under the LGPL
144 * Full IPv4 and IPv6 support
145 * An embeddable mDNS stack
146 * Dynamic adjustment to network reconfiguration
147 * Daemon with DBUS API for desktop applications
148 * C library to interface with the DBUS API
149 * Compatible with other mDNS/DNS-SD implementations such as
150 Howl and Apple Bonjour (previously Rendezvous)
151 * Ability to correctly "reflect" mDNS between two or more LAN segments
152 * Ability to configure DNS servers based on mDNS/DNS-SD published
153 information, a feature that is very usefull on IPv6
154 which has no other mechanism for this.
155 * Combined with nss-mdns, allows hostname lookup such as
156 'laptop.local' without the configuration of a DNS server.
157 http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
158 * Easy integration into GLIB, GTK other mainloop applications.
159 * Documentation and examples of both developer APIs and utilities.
161 mDNS/DNS-SD is part of a larger set of specifications for easy
162 configuration of networking known as "ZeroConf"
163 (http://www.zeroconf.org/), with the aim of allowing you to plug into
164 a network and instantly be able to interact with it's services.
166 Avahi was designed to be a fully free implementation, and is
167 available under the LGPL. Many other implementations of the mDNS/DNS-SD
168 specification were previously non-free, restricting their use in many
169 platforms such as the GNOME desktop and many distributions.
171 While Avahi is a 0.1 release, we feel it is feature complete and
172 available for immediate use, developers can make use of the Avahi
173 client library to provide above mentioned functionality in their
176 We unfortunately do not have a logo yet! We would love if someone
177 could suggest ideas for a logo or even design us one. If you think
178 you can help us out, you can contact us on our mailing list or by
179 emailing Trent Lloyd on lathiat@bur.st.
181 If you would like more information or help, you can subscribe
182 to our mailinglist, goto
183 http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
185 You can download Avahi 0.1 here
186 http://www.freedesktop.org/~lennart/avahi-0.1.tar.gz
188 You can also find out more information from our homepage
189 http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
191 We would like to thank the following people for their
192 contribution to Avahi 0.1.